Japan's 3 big lines hit by profit slump JAPAN's three major shipping lines suffered severe first half profit slumps, but two of them, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Line and Mitsui OSK Lines , were more upbeat about the next six months.
Containership turns into fireball
EC exempts shipping cartel from curbs
Spain escapes ecological tragedy for now
Patrick Corp's H2 earnings expected to surge 76%
Air and Land Transport
Aussie govt clips wings of air safety watchdog AUSTRALIA's government announced yesterday that it was taking direct control of the nation's air safety agency, which has come under scrutiny in recent years after a spate of deadly crashes.
United to cut 9,000 jobs, capacity, in loan bid
Federal airport screeners take over checking air passengers
2nd Viet airline plans flights to S'pore
Garuda pins hopes on new Shanghai route
Features
Sweden rebuilding Gotheborg, its 18th Century glory ship PIRATES, plunder, treasure and trade will come to life again when a Swedish company completes building a replica of the country's most famous 18th Century merchant ship.
Japan's 3 big lines hit by profit slump JAPAN's three major shipping lines suffered severe first half profit slumps, but two of them, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Line and Mitsui OSK Lines , were more upbeat about the next six months.
Containership turns into fireball
EC exempts shipping cartel from curbs
Spain escapes ecological tragedy for now
Patrick Corp's H2 earnings expected to surge 76%
Air and Land Transport
Aussie govt clips wings of air safety watchdog AUSTRALIA's government announced yesterday that it was taking direct control of the nation's air safety agency, which has come under scrutiny in recent years after a spate of deadly crashes.
United to cut 9,000 jobs, capacity, in loan bid
Federal airport screeners take over checking air passengers
2nd Viet airline plans flights to S'pore
Garuda pins hopes on new Shanghai route
Features
Sweden rebuilding Gotheborg, its 18th Century glory ship PIRATES, plunder, treasure and trade will come to life again when a Swedish company completes building a replica of the country's most famous 18th Century merchant ship.
Japan's 3 big lines hit by profit slump JAPAN's three major shipping lines suffered severe first half profit slumps, but two of them, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Line and Mitsui OSK Lines , were more upbeat about the next six months.
Containership turns into fireball
EC exempts shipping cartel from curbs
Spain escapes ecological tragedy for now
Patrick Corp's H2 earnings expected to surge 76%
Air and Land Transport
Aussie govt clips wings of air safety watchdog AUSTRALIA's government announced yesterday that it was taking direct control of the nation's air safety agency, which has come under scrutiny in recent years after a spate of deadly crashes.
United to cut 9,000 jobs, capacity, in loan bid
Federal airport screeners take over checking air passengers
2nd Viet airline plans flights to S'pore
Garuda pins hopes on new Shanghai route
Features
Sweden rebuilding Gotheborg, its 18th Century glory ship PIRATES, plunder, treasure and trade will come to life again when a Swedish company completes building a replica of the country's most famous 18th Century merchant ship.
About 10,000 exit at United United Airlines is expecting to return to profit in 2004 through a financial restructuring in which around 9,000 till 10,000 jobs will be cut by 2004.
TPG up on price decision ministry Although the Ministry of Economic Affairs today announced its decision on postal tariff regulation until 2007, and TNT Post, the monopoly in postal services in The Netherlands complained about it, shares won more than 5 per cent at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
P&O Ports volumes rose 14 per cent P&O Ports, one of the world's biggest ports operators saw its ports' container volumes rose 14 per cent in the third quarter 2002. P&O's contract logistics business, which it is trying to sell, remained sluggish.
Atlas Air up 23 per cent on strong results Shares of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings jumped 23 per cent Friday after the air freight concern reported revenue of $290.8 million, up from $150.7 million a year earlier
Agreement U.S. Postal and union The U.S. Postal Service and American Postal Workers Union reached tentative agreement on a two-year contract extension for 366,000 workers, with a 1.3 per cent wage increase in 2003 and in 2004, as well as four cost-of-living boosts by late 2005.
Landmark maritime security legislation set for signature The Maritime Security Act of 2002 (S. 1214) has been passed by both Houses of Congress. What's in it?
Bangladesh takes firm line on fire safety If your vessel is headed for Bangladesh, be sure that it's in compliance with the latest SOLAS fire safety requirements
Newbuilding quality issues High level meeting in Shanghai
Clydeport urges 'yes' vote to Peel £184m takeover bid Clydeport, Scotland's leading west coast ports group, is recommending a £184m ($276m) takeover bid from Peel Holdings, the property and airports group which owns the Manchester Ship Canal.
AkerKvaerner in six boxship deal for Iran TWO German yards belonging to the AkerKvaerner group have received an order from Iran for six 2,500 teu boxships, worth $205m.
Aznar threatens legal action over Prestige SPANISH prime minister Jose Maria Aznar weighed into the Prestige incident yesterday, saying last night that Spain would take the necessary "legal and political measures when the right time comes".
Speed up ship safety measures says Brussels THE European Commission does not believe that the Prestige casualty raises the need for new European measures to further tighten maritime safety standards, but rather the acceleration and stricter implementation of existing legislation, writes Brian Reyes in Gibraltar.
Happy holidays? ILWU exec says West Coast deal could happen by year-end An International Longshore and Warehouse Union official said that he is "cautiously optimistic" a West Coast labor contract could be in place by late December.
Providers told to take lead on issues over intermodal equipment safety A coalition of trucking interests and organized labor is prodding state legislatures to shift responsibility for safe intermodal equipment from motor carriers to the companies that provide chassis, trailers and containers.
Mærsk Sealand va aligner six PC de 4.500 TEU sur l’Amérique du Sud côte Est Une fois de plus ça bouge sur le secteur de trafic Europe du Nord-côte est de l’Amérique du Sud. Cette fois c’est Mærsk Sealand qui prend l’initiative, manoeuvre qui ne va pas sans créer inquiétude et appréhension parmi les autres armements opérant sur cette route, alors que ce marché est déjà très difficile, suite à la déplorable situation économique dans laquelle se trouvent l’Argentine, l’Uruguay et le Brésil. L’armement danois va remplacer ses moyens d’actions en alignant 6 PC de 4.500 TEU, qui remplacent d’une part les 4 unités de 2.800 TEU qui assurent son service propre au départ de l’Europe du Nord, et d’autre part 2 PC de 2.000 TEU qu’il aligne dans un des deux loops assuré avec 6 PC de cette taille par le groupe Hamburg Süd/ALiança/CMA CGM. Mærsk se retire de cette dernière configuration au début de l’année prochaine.
L’ECG estime que le programme Marco Polo est discriminatoire Marco Polo, le programme de la Commission européenne destiné à promouvoir les services de transport non routiers, est discriminatoire à l’égard de certains types de transport, dont celui des véhicules finis. C’est ce qui est ressorti des travaux de l’ECG (European Car-Transport Group of Interest), qui a tenu sa conférence annuelle la semaine passée à Prague. Les sociétés de tansport et de logistique de véhicules, y ont constaté que plusieurs développements actuels et futurs, affectant le secteur, constituent des défis importants pour eux.
Les chargeurs ne veulent pas s’en remettre à la décision de la Commission sur la TACA L’European Shippers’ Council (ESC), qui s’est toujours opposée au système de conférence, a clairement manifesté son mécontentement quant à la décision de la Commission d’accorder à la conférence Revised TACA (TACA-II) une nouvelle exemption aux règles européennes de concurrence sur base de la directive 4056 de 1986. Selon la secrétaire-générale de l’ESC, Nicolette van der Jagt, un appel contre cette décision fait partie des possibilités, mais son organisation ne se prononcera pas en la matière avant d’avoir étudié en détail le texte de la Commission. L’ESC déclare aussi qu’on ne peut considérer l’approbation de la TACA-II comme un modèle pour les conférences actives sur d’autres marchés.
Lagermax et V.T.E. signent un contrat de coopération exclusif L’entreprise de transport et d’expédition néerlandaise V.T.E. de Venlo a resserré ses liens avec son partenaire autrichien Lagermax au sein du réseau 24plus. Des liaisons quotidiennes sont proposées entre Venlo d’une part et Salzbourg, Vienne, Linz et Graz d’autre part depuis lundi dernier. Salzbourg sera éventuellement utilisé comme hub pour les pays d’Europe de l’Est par V.T.E.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
phone: +39.010.2462122, fax: +39.010.2516768, e-mail
VAT number: 03532950106
Press Reg.: nr 33/96 Genoa Court
Editor in chief: Bruno Bellio No part may be reproduced without the express permission of the publisher
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
